Plastic pollution has become an escalating environmental and public health crisis in Nigeria, reflecting a broader challenge across the African continent. As Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria’s rapid urbanization and consumer growth have led to a surge in plastic consumption. However, this has not been matched by improvements in waste management infrastructure, resulting in widespread plastic pollution that endangers human
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Last month, Shell finalized the sale of two billion, four hundred million dollars in onshore and shallow-water assets in Nigeria, bringing an end to the oil giant’s operations in the country’s onshore oil and gas sector, without taking responsibility for properly clearing up the 1,010 oil spills since 2011, or the 491,627 barrels of oil spilled from 1998 to 2009. In March, the United States government
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The Green Africa Conservation Initiative has urged governments and conservation agencies to treat indigenous communities as equal partners in global climate action, warning that current climate adaptation and mitigation measures risk failure if local realities and traditional knowledge systems are ignored. Racheal Kakungulu Kirama, Co-Founder and Director of the Green Africa Conservation Initiative in a comment said indigenous peoples provide
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Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to leading a global shift away from fossil fuels toward a just and inclusive energy transition, as momentum builds ahead of COP30 scheduled to hold in Belém this year. Silva made the declaration during her address at the final day of the Renew Our Power event
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The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Mr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, has pledged to pursue transformative collaborations with key stakeholders in order to deliver on the strategic mandate assigned to him by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement by the company’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, made available to newsmen
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Over 200 climate leaders from more than 70 countries, including Africa, have called on Brazil to demonstrate true climate leadership by ending fossil fuel expansion and prioritising a just and inclusive energy transition at COP30, which the country is set to host later this year in Belém, capital of the Amazonian state of Pará. The demand was made during a
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The founding conference of the Global South NGO Platform will be held on April 28–29, 2025, at the Congress Center in Baku, APA reports. On November 15, 2024, within the framework of COP29, an international conference themed “Advancing Climate Action Through Global South-South Cooperation – The Role of NGOs” was held for NGOs from the Non-Aligned Movement region. At the conference, heads
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The United Nations’ International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on Friday April 11, 2025 adopted the world’s first carbon pricing mechanism for the global shipping industry one of the most polluting sectors globally. The agreement, reached at the IMO headquarters in London during the closing plenary of a week-long negotiation, marks a critical step towards decarbonising international maritime transport. The new
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
Nuclear power is a solution to climate change because it is the largest source of low-carbon energy that produces minimal greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 1.18 billion) due to huge production which has led to the exportation of the according to recent
A new report from the UN Climate Change shows that countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature
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